Music to your ears

About

Gareth Cook in the City Bakery, New York, with hot chocolate and a grin

This is a blog about how life should sound. According to me, anyway.

My name is Gareth Cook. I’m a writer who loves music. I’m writing this blog about the music I love. It’s that simple.

I also write comic poetry, stand up comedy material and from time to time I think about starting to write my novel again, which currently runs to a page and a half.

I’m not especially musical myself. I’m a drummer – enough said. I just hit things. Specifically djembe and bongos. I have never progressed to drum kit, mainly because I would rather get on with my neighbours and I was never very good at the rub tummy whilst patting head routine. I have a burning ambition to learn how to play the tabla but it takes years to master, so I’m not sure when I’ll get round to it!

I’ll be writing about my favourite bands, songs, albums and why I like them, and occasionally explaining why I really don’t like certain others.

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8 thoughts on “About”

Well done son! Spotify is fantastic – guess what I found that song I was looking for and have now been able to identify it on itunes.
The Itunes site is much, much, slower than Spotify and obviously not as sensitive.

Dearest Emily, I’m afraid that if I gave my opinion of either of them then you certainly wouldn’t be reading this blog!

I respect the rights of everyone to have their own musical taste, even Nic with her strange preference for pop pap such as Steps, but my remit here is to celebrate the music I like and denigrate the stuff I don’t. I haven’t done much of the latter yet, cos I’m too nice, but you have reminded me that my ‘Avoid like the Plague’ list could do with some updating!